We left the warehouse to discover an absolute shitstorm. Apparently, the king had died and the city
was in chaos. There was extensive
rioting, and in order not to tarnish my currently golden reputation with these
new people, I agreed that we needed to get our captive to the guard, and not to
join the looting. We even managed to
resolve a couple of issues on the way to the guard house, rescuing some noble
named Armen Gelentro from a gang of commoners, running into some insane man who
seemed fixated with the priest, as well as seeing the hellknights trying to restore
order to the city. Impressively
efficient unit, the hellknights.
After we dropped off the gnome we figured our best course of
action was to lay low for the night, as a curfew was in force and the
hellknights weren’t really listening to reason before enforcing the associated
penalties, as well as sable marines flying around putting down citizens seen on
the streets. So we headed back to the
Varissian witch’s house to wait for the next day. The witch appeared again, and thanked us, as
well as telling us that her cards were magical, and that we should hang onto
them.
Since the priest apparently caught something from the
madman, we headed to the Bank of Abadar to pick up a little healing, both for
the priest and for Artox, who was suffering some lingering effects from the
previous day’s fighting. We then headed
for the heights to try to get a reward for finding the queen’s brooch, stopping
off again along the way, this time at the church of Shelyn. Turns out the gruff warrior with the ragged
voice is a bit of a queer.
We eventually reached the heights and secured an audience
with the queen, meeting her second in command along the way. A fine looking pair of women, but still only
women. I guess the queen could be useful
to me in my rise to power, but I can’t afford to be indebted to her in the
process, and anything I gain from her can be as easily taken away. Best bet was to play it cool, I guess, so I
did. But it was definitely worth
collecting the influence and kudos I have coming to me for retrieving the
brooch.
We were rewarded for returning the brooch, but then the
queen volunteered us to help the city guard quell the riots. Not impressed at all, but then again the queen
owing me a favour can only be useful to my goals, so time to perform some civic
duty and hopefully garner some a bit of a reputation with some of the city’s
leaders.
Heading to the guard house, we met the captain of the city
watch who asked us to grab a deserter from the watch by the name of Verik. Apparently growing numbers of guards were
deciding that their jobs weren’t much fun anymore, with the unrest in the city
needing to be put down requiring a lot more work than their usual routines of,
presumably, shaking down small business owners and beating petty criminals. Verik was apparently at a butcher’s shop, with
a bunch of other deserters, so we headed there immediately.
We entered through the back of the shop, once again our
efforts at sneaking in ruined by some of the noisier members of the group. I hope they learn some stealth at some point
– if we’re going to continue hanging around together, we may at some point come
up against opponents we need to get a tactical advantage over. But then again, so far it’s not been a real
issue. We found ourselves up against
Varik and a few other guardsmen, and soon had them all down, although
surprisingly without any fatalities. Even
to the deserters. Searching the
building, we found evidence that they had been providing human meat to people,
and we soon managed to establish that although Varik was pretty much unaware of
any serious wrongdoing, his lackeys had been taking money to beat people up,
then decided to upgrade to murdering and butchering them, and giving the meat
to the people Varik was trying to help with free food.
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